Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-01-30

1 The telegraph wires we're down leEt
evening east Of Portland. Oar Aaso-
Iciafed Press report d consequently
| greatly rsdncsd.l
The LenRsheremen,s sfrfke
| Exw Fozx. Jan 2s.-Tas extension Of
the strike 20 the railroad freight hard
lers on the city water front has brouRhs
tue number Of men nov out 10 nearly
5000. The probability Is that before
the day is over other railroad employees
will csass uoEk. The men on the New
York City q Nesthsrn Railroad pier on
East River claim to have had grievances
against the company on aecount Of l0w
rates q wages and also the tfreaularity
Of payment, the men claiming that In
some instances pay vas mere than 4
month over due though this Is denied
By the company. 1he men, through
sympathy with the coal shovelers and
steamship longshoreman, went out yes
teTday. They we're sent for By the |
6apeFintet dent, bat refused TO treat |
| with him individually. he railroad |
men ON the Hartford dock demonstrated. |
The East River men were ths next 10 20 |
oui, and IL IL rumosed that today the |
men on the Pennsylvania and other /
railroad docks will 20 cot. The great /
est difliculay in moving freight Ia on the /
docks along North River, where most Of /
| the ocean steamers are beEthed. All 4
Outgoing vessels have been delayed for /
the want ef coal, and it was said % the /
headquarters Of the strikers that eev-
eral vessels had pEoceeded to sea with
an insufficient amount Of coal and also
with incomplete carRoes.
kRRKsrKD YoR CONSPIRACY.
James z. Qainn, q member Of the
Executive Board Of she Loneahoremen's
Union, was arrested today by 3 Deputy
United Stat Marshal for conspifing 70
iD iuFe ths business OF the Old Dominion
Steamship Company. Twenty thousand
dollars damages Il asked. He was re-
leased on 5000 bail.
TIE DAMAGE COMPUTED.
The Nail and Express says that the
goFk Of the coal handlers. which has
re utted In almost paraly zinQ the ensire
tgatiie along the river front of this city,
rendering idle thousands Of men and
causing untold misery and suffering 10
the sick and poor, has been in existence
Just one month. Not single point has
Oeen gained by them. On the contrary,
thsy and their sympathizers whe have
struck TO aid thea, are much worse Oh
than before the strike began. Not one
Of these men has any idea of the wide
spread direct loss to this city, the dam
age TO The vast oommerue eentered here
and the ioss In hard cash 10 their fellow
WoFkinemen and their families, which
their action has entailed. They wOuid
be astouaded 10 be told that this total,
in carefully estimated figures, reaches
to more than $4,000 yet such is the
case, and the estimates in each instance
have been conservative and under
rather than above the actual facts.
This. too, 10 without counting In the e1
tFA medical expense caused through suf-
fering for want Of coal and funeral ex
penses of many whose deaths have been
hasse1ed, II not directly caused, BY tins
coal famine.
wHAg THE COMPANIES SAT-.
At the Guion L ne ofEisa on Broadway,
ID was said that the Wyoming would be
ready to sail By Tuesday. The green
hands were at work and By the time the
next vessel came In they would be able
10 handle freight as quickly with the
new hands a. formerly. II
Az the State Line office the chief
clerk said that the company vas not
embarrassed by the strike for tbs reason
that nons Of their vessels wonid sail fer /,
Q ueek.
AZ the Cunard Lin. offioe IL vas said
that they ceuld get all the men the
wanted. The Gala had been coaled and
carRoed by non uaisn men, and the YES
eel uill sail tomorrow.
AZ the Anchor Line II was said: 1--WE
have sll the men We want-abo1t $50
At the French Trans Atlantic Line
the aeeat said that his company vas not
inconvenienced.
Il was reported at nonn today that the
weiQhers IN the customs house had
struck out Of sympathy for ths long
atoFemen, and the rumor oansed some
exoltement among the officials. IL
sranspirsd, however, that it vas not tbe
weikhera. but their lAboFeFs. who had
atruek.
AT sR0oKLYN.
The Brooklyn lougshorsmen are all
out yet. The strikers are stationed
about the docks watching the few non
anion men at work. There has been no
trouble, except the ieeriaa Of the noR-
union men. A delegation Of strikers
visited every salOon from Red Hook 20
Green Poinf, and warned the pFopgie-
tsFs not to sell liquor 10 the non union
men under the penalty Of boycott. A
gang Of Italians eama over FROM New
York and were escorted By the police TO
the commercial stores. The men ~
work at wilkes coal yard refused 70 I
leave their work when ordered oy the Z
stFikerA
rzK DOCKS BURNING.
BAm.-Pierss 8 and on North river, e.
cupied by the OFomuell line OF steamers
20 Mes Orissns, are 81 are. A numkes
Of engines have been summoned. One
steamer after buFning considerably has {
been toWed out into the river. Pier {
will be destFoyrd. Pier 3, occupied By
the southern Railroad Of New Jersey h /
on fre, but the flames thsre may be ex
tinaaished. One steamer. the name OF
vtlch cAnuot nv Be learned. took /
dre. Tbs shan - are COED for sup
pressing the flames aboard Of her.
Nxv Yosx. Jan. 29.-Ths IRE thai
broke out this afteFueon IN TIE CrUm
veil Line pier No. 3, North river. de- ..
ssrnxed All al lie contentn. Tha steam !
era Of this tine ply between New York
sud Neu Orleana. When engines. sum
noned by three alarms Of IRE. cot %
the aoene. the whole ptsr was macs Of
flames. Aioueside the peer lay The
steamer L.1uisianA, which wae last ready
% saii, and on her deok ucfe passeneefs
wnyirR their adieus % their friends on
the uhare. On the Other si6s Of the
dook vas the steamer New Orleans.
Both vesasis we're toWed cot 20 MD
Stream. Ths passengers on the Loaisi-
ana we're tAken % By The police ofnceFs.
VITO usra pFotest1ng the non nnion
workmen. The vessels upper works
wsrs in flames. weils the PASSENGERS
wers being pasasd down Der side. Tie
V..-s.Sann .maa tnWN3 oaa into the